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I've reached the point where I'm done with the lexicon of co-called spirituality and contemplation/ meditation. If I ever refer to non-duality, duality, delusion, enlightenment,...

Whatever path I am on leads directly here from here.

““Significance is what we attribute to events. They are not inherent to events.”” — Just so, Shiv Sengupta

““…people die in the manner of their living, which mostly means they die, not dying.”” — We’re all going to die, Julian Summerhayes

Doing a lot of deleting today. Got rid of a huge archive of notes and articles I’m never going to read. Slashed the number of...

Life as it is, the only teacher…

““The meaning of being alive is just being alive.”” — Alan Watts

Freezing out. Hot in here.

If you’re looking for answers Zen doesn’t have any.

Toast has swapped her ‘official’ bed for her beloved sheepskin.

I’ve been contemplating the meditation session at the yoga centre last week. It was all very pleasant and I will certainly go again even though...

““One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.”” — Too-Ticky/ Tove Jansson

““Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” — Philip K. Dick

““Academia is where the vitality of the human spirit goes to die.”” — Anon It seems to me antithetical to turn the wholly subjective practice...

We have within us the dual ability to be our own worst enemy as well as our own best friend. Looking back I spent far...

““To directly recognise how consciousness is in each moment, prior to any identification with thought, is the most important thing I've ever learned.”” — Sam...

I consider myself extraordinarily lucky to have grown up in a kind of enforced but benign solitude, being an only child and living in a...

Imaginings can always be lost. Reality never goes away.

I listened to an inadvertently funny Wisdom of the Masters podcast episode on my drive to work this morning. It was a reading of Dzogchen...